The First Polymer Notes all over the world
1- Albania:
- Currency: Leke
- Denomination: 200
- Issue Year: 2019
- Polymer rank: 0
- Size: 125 x 65 mm
- Printer: DLR
- Substrate: Safeguard™
- Type: Circulating (on issue)
Albania, 200 Leke, issued in 2019. Front: Naim Frashëri (1846-1900), Albanian historian, journalist, poet, translator, nationalist and writer at left. Known as a pioneer of modern Albanian literature and one of the most influential Albanian cultural icons. At right Bank of Albania building in Tirana. Clear and semi transparent window at right with Frashëri portrait. Back: House where Frashëri was born, now a museum, was declared as a monument of important cultural heritage. Paper with phrase taken from Frasheri poem at the center, with fountain pen bellow. Coat of arms, depicting two-headed eagle, at left.
2- Australia:
- Denomination: 10
- Issue Year: 1988
- Polymer rank: 9
- Size: 155 x 77.5 mm
- Printer: NPA
- Substrate: Guardian®
- Type: Circulating commemorative (obsolete)
10 Dollars, issued in 1988. This was the first circulating polymer bank note with a clear window in the world. Issued to commemorate 200 years of Australian settlement. Front: The ship "Supply" and a medley of people against a background of Sydney Cove. The "Supply" and her ten sister ships of the First Fleet left Portsmouth, England in May 1787, establishing a settlement at Sydney Cove in January 1788. Back: A portrayal of an aboriginal youth wearing body paint, and a morning star pole, an example of poles used by the aboriginal people of northeast Arnhem Land on ceremonial occasions. Aboriginal paintings in the background.
3- Bangladesh:
- Currency: Taka
- Denomination: 10
- Issue Year: 2000
- Polymer rank: 45
- Size: 130 x 60 mm
- Printer: NPA
- Substrate: Guardian®
- Type: Circulating (obsolete)
10 Taka, issued in 2000. Front: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1921-1975), first Bangladeshi prime minister, regarded by some as the father of Bangladesh. His portrait appeared on early Bangladeshi notes. He was assassinated, along with most of his family, in 1975. The government subsequently changed and his portrait was removed from the notes. His daughter, Sheikh Hasina Wajed, was abroad at the time and she survived and became Bangladeshi prime minister in 1996. She reinstated her father's portrait on the notes. The National Mosque at right. Back: The National Parliament, the National Mausoleum at left, and a satellite dish at right.
4- Botswana:
- Currency: Pula
- Denomination: 10
- Issue Year: 2018
- Polymer rank: 0
- Size: 133 x 66 mm
- Printer: DLR
- Substrate: Safeguard™
- Type: Circulating (on issue)
